Fatigue

Information from Nottinghamshire Healthcare

Fatigue

This booklet has been designed to help you manage your long COVID fatigue. It provides information on the ways in which fatigue can affect you, and practical tips and strategies you can adopt to help manage your fatigue.

Activity Diary

We encourage everyone to keep an activity diary. If you want to try this before the first session, that is great. If the information in this booklet feels unclear and you would prefer to wait until you attend the session, that is completely fine too. 

 

Useful links from other sources

Energy Conservation in the Workplace (University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust)

This information leaflet provides some strategies which might help you to conserve your energy in the workplace and at home. 

 

Understanding Energy Impairment

Having an energy impairment can be likened to starting each day with only 30% battery. Using this analogy it is important that people can:

• Use their energy wisely and conserve it wherever possible.
• Re-charge through regular rest periods. This means complete rest from all activity - including tasks like reading and talking.
• Avoid over-stretching to 0% battery, leaving nothing left for the rest of the day. 

 

Royal College of Occupational Therapists - Lift up your everyday: advice for managing energy

Information from the Royal College of Occupational Therapists around fatigue and energy management. Provides practical strategies and tips for people with long term health conditions.

 

ME / CFS Website

Contains general information about Long Covid, as well as well as strategies / tips around energy and activity management.  

 

Spoons Theory: 

• Neurodivergence and Disability Acceptance: The Importance of Spoon Theory: General information about the Spoons Theory and energy management for people with long term conditions and neurodivergence
• Royal College of Occupational Therapists: Another resource explaining the Spoons Theory in relation to long term conditions